Taxi Driver
1976
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Jan 10, 1987 · Victor Magnotta was the consummate movie stunt man. He drove cars off bridges, turned flips on horseback, rappelled down the sides of burning buildings and scrambled up 100-foot masts on...
Actor: The Warriors. Victor Magnotta was a personal friend of Martin Scorsese. They went to NYU together. He also wanted to be a priest but he ended up joining the Special Forces when the Vietnam broke out. After Vietnam he became a stunt man.
- Stunts, Actor, Art Department
- October 10, 1943
- Victor Magnotta
- January 8, 1987
Jan 9, 1987 · The stuntman, Vic Magnotta, 43 years old, of Pleasantville, N.Y., drove the car up a ramp designed to make it flip sideways before landing in the river, across from midtown Manhattan, Lieutenant...
Jul 27, 2022 · A longtime friend of Scorsese, Victor Magnotta appears briefly in "Taxi Driver" as the Secret Service photographer who photographs Travis at the outdoor Palatine rally. His appearance was the...
- Sailendra Roy – Died While Travelling on A Zip Wire Using His Hair
- Kun Liu – Died While Filming The Expendables 2from An Explosion Gone Wrong
- Chris Lamon – Died Filming Segal’s Exit Woundsfrom…Well, Exit Wounds
- Collin Dragsbaek – Died After Falling on A Faulty Airbag
- Bennie Dobbins – Died After Filming A Fight with Schwarzenegger
- Victor Magnotta – Drowned While Performing A Car Stunt
- Dar Robinson – Died After Driving His Motorcycle Off A Cliff
- Joseph Svec – Died While Recreating An Parachute Accident
- Paolo Rigon – Died While Filming A James Bond Movie
Sailendra Nath Roywas a Guinness record holder for the longest distance travelled on a zip wire while using his pony tail to hold to it. He broke the record in 2011, when he travelled a whole 82.5 meters on a zip wire, holding onto his hair. A year later he pulled an entire locomotive for 2.5 meters, while it was attached to his pony tail. In 2013,...
During the filming of the popular action movie sequel, The Expendables 2, there was a staged explosion that went wrong. Two stuntmen were on a rubber boat where the explosion took place. Kun Liuand Nuo Sun, both acting as stuntmen for Jet Li, were both caught in the blast. Kun Liu died from the explosion, and Nuo Sun was severely injured, and later...
During the filming of Exit Wounds, starring Steven Segal and DMX and directed by Joel Silver (The Matrix, Lethal Weapon), a stuntman died while accidentally hitting his head on the pavement. Chris Lamonand another stuntman were supposed to roll out of a moving van safely, but Lamon “made an error with his footing”, and hit his head on the ground. H...
While filming the movie called Love Serenade, Colling Dragsbaekwas performing a stunt scene on a grain silo. Unfortunately, an air bag that he was supposed to land on failed to open, and he died upon impact with the ground. It is implicated that the fault is both his and supervising stunt coordinators’, who didn’t make sure that the air bag was up ...
Bennie Dobbins, stuntman and a director, died while filming Read Heatin 1998. The scene required Arnold Scwarzenegger and another actor to fight in deep snow, while close to naked. Dobins was installing fan heaters in the snow, to prevent actors from suffering hypothermia, but he suffered a heart attack while doing that. He died when he was 50 year...
Victor “The Bear” Magnotta was one of the veteran stuntmen back in the 80’s. He was in the business for years, and did many dangerous scenes and performances. While filming The Squeeze he was supposed to drive a vehicle off a pier and into the Hudson river. He did exactly that, but his car was crushed by the impact, and he was pinned inside of it. ...
Dar Robinsonwas one of the most well-known stuntmen, having broke 19 world records and set 21 world “firsts”. Dar was interested in being a stuntman ever since he was a child, and he became one in 1937. After that, he went on and had a 19-year long Hollywood career, that would end in 1986, while he was filming a stunt scene for the movie Million Do...
Joseph Leonard Svecwas recreating Chuck Yeager’s escape from a Lockheed NF-104A, an aircraft used to train astronauts. Chuck Yeager is an Air Force pilot, best known for being the first person to exceed the speed of sound in a level flight. He once had an accident where his helmet caught fire, and that was the event that Jospeh Svec tried to recrea...
While filming the twelfth James Bond movie, named For Your Eyes Only, an accident including four stuntmen happened. They were performing a high-speed bobsled chase, but their bobsled hit a tree at a high speed. Paolo Rigon, one of the stuntmen that was inside of it, died on the spot. Mr. Rigon was not credited as a stuntmen, nor are there many repo...
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Actor: The Warriors. Victor Magnotta was a personal friend of Martin Scorsese. They went to NYU together. He also wanted to be a priest but he ended up joining the Special Forces when the Vietnam broke out. After Vietnam he became a stunt man.
Victor Magnotta is known as an Stunt Coordinator, Actor, Stunts, Set Designer, and Stunts Coordinator. Some of his work includes Highlander, Dressed to Kill, The Secret of My Success, The Bounty, The Cotton Club, Amityville II: The Possession, Endless Love, and The Wanderers.
